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Abstract This article examines the Yeditepe Biennial—Turkey's first Islamic and traditional arts biennial—as a creative festival shaped by the socio‐political and spatial dynamics of Turkish‐Islamist nationalism. Counterposed against the Istanbul Biennial and the Western‐oriented secular cultural legacy of the Turkish Republic, the Yeditepe Biennial ...
Hulya Arik, Sabrien Amrov
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Law in the Early Christian Church
The document discusses the development of legal systems within the early Christian Church, starting from its initial informal guidelines to more structured canonical laws influenced by Roman civil law.
Jiří Bílý
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Kontinuitet och förändring i Svenska kyrkans identitet
In the Christian church nothing is right simply because it is old and has been done «always» or because it is new and fresh. As shown already in the New Testament, both continuity and change need to be evaluated, as they both can shape true Christian ...
Bengt Holmberg
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‘Justice be with you’: Transcending the peace talk rhetoric in the Zion Christian Church
The Zion Christian Church is one of the largest, most powerful and influential African Independent Churches (AICs). Its membership of about 6 million makes up about 50% of the total membership of AICs.
Mookgo S. Kgatle
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Abstract Much of the current popular and academic literature on the provision of green spaces is dominated by the assumption that ‘nature’ is an unalloyed positive, and that socioeconomic and racial exclusion from access to green spaces is a problem of unequal spatial distribution rather than of the form and content of particular urban designs.
Kiera Chapman
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In fact, the act of Christian initiation is itself to be considered as a journey in faith. To make it clear, this article mainly focuses on how this journey in faith is developed through ritual participation of the faithful in the dispensation ...
Bilju Vazhappilly
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The Normative Turn: Back to Hobhouse?
ABSTRACT Supporters of a recently announced normative turn in sociology acknowledge that what they recommend is by no means entirely new. However, they have given little attention to an early precursor: the British sociologist Leonard Hobhouse. He focussed on the role of the normative in social life and insisted that sociology could, and must, play an ...
Martyn Hammersley
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Playing the Game: Illusio and the Cultural Normalisation of Shadow Education in Greece and Beyond
ABSTRACT Shadow education has become a defining feature of contemporary schooling systems, yet dominant explanations continue to emphasise access, market expansion, and examination pressure. This article advances a sociological account of how shadow education becomes culturally normalised within contexts formally committed to public educational ...
Alexandros Kamplitsis
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Rethinking Toleration: Wesley, Whitefield and Evangelical Collaboration in the Eighteenth Century
Abstract There is a growing body of scholarship on the history of religious toleration; nevertheless, historians have largely treated toleration as a matter of governmental policy and legal principle. This article broadens that account by examining John Wesley and George Whitefield's vision of evangelical unity across denominational lines.
Sarah Irving‐Stonebraker
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ABSTRACT This paper examines the association between CEOs' prosocial tendency and their firms' likelihood of accounting manipulation. We measure CEOs' prosocial tendency based on their involvement with charitable organizations. We find that prosocial CEOs are less likely to engage in accounting manipulation, as proxied by material non‐reliance ...
Mei Feng +3 more
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